This year the cost of visiting famous sites of the Republic of Karelia will substantially grow. Thus, according to the experts, a two nights stay in the Republic of Karelia and visiting the major attractions, including trips and accommodation, will cost a tourist about eight thousand rubles in the summer season of 2013.

The RoadShow “Welcome to Moscow" started in Orel the other day; this show will be held in Russia until April 12, inclusive, in the format of seminar presentations. Within RoadShow the tourism opportunities of the capital will be presented in Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Lipetsk, Astrakhan, Volgograd, Saratov, Penza, Samara, Orenburg, Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Tyumen, Ekaterinburg, Perm, Izhevsk, Kirov, Yoshkar-Ola and Kazan.

The tickets in second-class train carriages and the carriages of general formation of "Federal Passenger Company" JSC departing from March 11 to April 27, 2013 will cost on average 25% less than on the tariff.

The Saratov region presented the tour "In the Saratov Footsteps of Ostap Bender".

Slovakia will hold a series of presentations of its health resorts in several Russian cities in 2013. Medical tourism is a priority of the Russian-Slovak tourism cooperation.